Complete transcript of Bush shill "ROCKEY VACCARELLA" available:

[Bluebear]

He's a Katrina victim who was driving to the White House with a FEMA trailer. And he seemed to strike a nerve with people. He's there now. He's actually been invited inside. He wanted to go and met with the president. Well, guess what, the president has decided to meet with him!



The good news is that CNN seems to have finally stop obsessing over John Mark Karr. Instead, they've found a new soap opera to go ga-ga over, Katrina survivor Rockey Vaccarella, who drove his FEMA trailer from his home in ravaged St. Bernard Parish to Washington with "the hope" of convincing President Bush to meet with him.

You can see why TV loves this story (the guy's named 'Rockey,' for cryin' out loud!), because to those who pay casual attention, i.e., the vast majority of viewers, the parallels to another news story are striking.

It was exactly one year ago that the headlines were all about Bush, on another lengthy vacation in Crawford, refusing to meet with an average American who was devastated by a tragedy -- Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq. It was a publicity bloodbath, and it rolled right into the horrors of Katrina and a seemingly indifferent White House, beginning the long slide in Bush's approval rating.

Now comes Rockey, a plain-talking character who lost it all in Katrina, who nearly died in the hurricane, forced to hang onto a rope for four hours (some of that was captured on film), and now wants to government to do more for Katrina victims. And what a difference a year makes -- not only did Bush, not in Crawford but hard at work in the White House, meet with this "average American," but check out the glowing praise our president received in return.

First, here's the way that the media spun the meeting: A triumph for the little guy:

transcript at:

http://www.attytood.com/archives/003647.html

[Tanuki]

1. "Little guy" backed by Texaco, Chevron, Monsanto $$$

http://www.ghostriderpictures.com/pgm-tps2.htm
check out the "about us" tab on this link to see who's apparently bankrolling this via the film-maker Steven Scaffidi:

[malaise]

3. hahahahahaha

I asked about the link to Ghostrider pictures this morning. Wasn't Scaffidi linked to the Rethug national convention from 2004?

[WI_DEM]

2. so are the nightly newscasts going to lead with this deceptive story?

without commenting that the guy is a repuplican operative?

[Subdivisions]

4. Damn, I missed the chance to watch for the answer

to your question. So, did they?

[Tanuki]

5. Probably

As Scaffidi says at the link above: "Our philosophy is simple: If we capture the attention of our audience, we can motivate them to do almost anything."

This nonsense is obviously aimed at the same people who would believe that Bush has read 50 books this year just because his PR people said so.

[Julius Civitatus]

6. CNN, MSNBC, Fox News... all of them are eating this up

They are giving full coverage to this clown and his pre-paid photo-op to take the spotlight off the hundreds of thousands of victims who were left with NOTHING after Katrina, and are yet to see any effective help.

What a disgusting, puke-worthy, utterly staged photo-op by this 'Potemkin victim' giving his thanks to Bush for his response to the disaster.

:puke:

Stalin and Mao would be proud of this staged event.

[Julius Civitatus]

7. k & r

:kick: